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Things I desperately need to work on:

1. Caring about things beyond myself and my immediate sphere. Find myself embarrassingly bound by introspection, by issues to do with friends or family. Case in point, right now. My concerns are so contained, so insignificant. On Twitter, Facebook, blogs. Most i do for issues that matter in a larger context is article reading and sharing.

In the wake of GE2015, and taking senior seminar, i’ve been increasingly aware of my apathy. I just don’t care enough to find out – i mean properly find out – what’s wrong or right with this world. It’s not that being politically informed is an obligation, neither do i have to be well-versed in all tenets of social welfare. But. I need to care about something that has to do with the world and not just me, now, here.

Edit: Not just caring, but making the effort to find out about. Not just half-baked ideas, fetal theories. Read up, find some hard evidence to ground myself. Need to recognize the importance of the concrete to bolster the abstract.

2. Donate, and donate consciously. No excuse for this one. Singapore has made it convenient for donations to be made. They are everywhere, and often legitimate. However convenient they are, though, it has become instinctive to brush flaggers and donation boxes aside (something i swore not to do after my experience as a flagger lol).

Yes, so, curb that need to power walk wherever i probably don’t need to rush to. Donate, and donate to causes i believe in.